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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
Can AI replace lawyers—at least in some circumstances? The post An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. appeared first on SingularityHub.
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process.
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
⭐ Key points: Google announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a dedicated model for real-time speech-to-text conversion. The model activates the Rambler feature on Pixel 11 for filtering filler words and continuous multilingual transcription. According to Google, the model shows a 70% improvement in transcription speed and error reduction compared to Chirp 3. The model supports Hebrew in the language list of Google AI Studio, while the Rambler feature is aimed at …
Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person conversations or take notes.
Headline: The global robotics games in Beijing delivered a new 100-meter run record
⭐ Key points Nvidia presented the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a dedicated robotics computer for edge AI applications. The computer provides processing power of up to 78 TOPS and is based on an 8‑core Arm processor. Inference performance has doubled, and alternatively you can get previous‑generation performance with 40% lower power consumption. The module and development kit are expected to reach the market in the first half of 2027. Nvidia [...]
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
⭐ Key points OpenAI has released official performance data for its first self-developed inference processor, Jalapeño. According to the company, the accelerator provides performance that is 1.5 to 1.9 times per watt compared to competing systems. Tests in the InferenceX benchmark show latency times that are 1.7 to 3.6 times lower. Deployment of the chip in data centers is expected to start toward the end of 2026. OpenAI has published data [...] The post OpenAI unveiled the performance of the Jalapeño processor – 1.9 times more efficient than competitors first appeared on Technology and Entertainment Magazine - Gadgety.
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
Alice provides AI safety solutions across the full lifecycle of AI systems. The financing round brings the total amount raised to $280 million
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…
